NVIDIA is clearly leading in the AI hardware space, but Intel is looking to catch up with its recent acquisitions of Nervana, Altera and Movidius. It now launched a new Artificial Intelligence Products Group (AIPG) to execute on its AI strategy.

A simple, flexible, and general framework for object instance segmentation. Without tricks, Mask R-CNN outperforms all existing, single-model entries on every task of the COCO suite of challenge, including the COCO 2016 challenge winners. Code will be made available.

fFour families of problems for which some of the commonly used existing algorithms fail or suffer significant difficulty. The failures are illustrated through experiments, and the auhtors provide theoretical insights explaining their source, and how they might be remedied.